Jeff Lemire Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There is no one true church.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
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My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
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I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.
